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Question Library Function

BRAVO! now has a Question Library that makes game creation a snap! Drag-n-drop questions from any category or game. Create, edit and import/export questions directly into the library. As a bonus feature, you can randomize your questions and categories for a whole new training game experience everytime!

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To launch the library in any of the games, click on Questions, and then click on Launch Question Library, or go to Tools on the top menu and click on Launch Question Library. In this box, you will see a few options in your library.

Library Name: This represents the name of the library. You can have as many libraries as you would like.
Keyword Filter: This allows you to search a library or libraries for questions with a keyword or for a specific word in the question.
Difficulty: This will allow you search for questions that have been assigned a difficulty level of 1,2, or 3.
Library: You have multiple options with in this box: New, Open, Save, Save As, Import, Export, and Delete.
Add (Folder): Click on this to add a new category within a library.
Add Question: Select a category and the button will become active. This will allow you to add a question into a category.
Remove: Select a category or question and you can remove it. When removing a Category, it will remove all of the content within that category.
Edit/Rename: If you select a category, you can rename it. If you select a question, you can edit the question outside of the game board. By clicking on the edit button, you will open the question editor. In Showdown, you can only edit the questions in the actual question editor, found within Showdown.
Category Names: The name of a category. A category can contain as many questions as you would like.
Questions: This represents the questions you have in each category.

Keyword Filter

This allows you to search a library or libraries for questions with a keyword or for a specific word in the question.

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To Edit a Question in the Library
Select the question you want to edit, then select edit. You will then be able to modify your question outside of the game board. This provides you with the flexibility to create questions first, and then decide where you want to place them on the board.

Moving Question from one Category to Another
You can move questions around from one category in the library to another by simply dragging and dropping. To move around questions on the game board, you will first need to drag it to the library, then drag it to back to the board.

Quick Tip to Clear Question of All Content
Click on the Add (no folder) icon, and add an empty question. You can then drag this to a question on the board and it will clear it. Keep in mind, once you do that, the question is gone, unless you placed it in the library.

To move Questions from One Game to Another
You can leave the library open from one game and open up another game format and drag your questions to the question area.

Drag and Drop Functionality
To add a question from the game board to the library, you first need to select a category within the library, then simply drag and drop the question into the library. This will also bring in all of your content, including images, audio, summary and preview slides. To move a question from the library to the game, simply drag a question from the library to a question area on the game board.

Making Your Questions in the Library

Click on a category in your Library as the destination for a question. If you are starting with a new library, click on the DRAG QUESTIONS HERE, rename it to anything you want.
With the Category selected, Click the question Add tab .
Select the new Question Icon, and click on Edit, to enter your question, preview, summary, and other information.

You can Import Questions using CSV Formats
To import questions using a .CSV file format, click on Library tab in the Question Library, and then click on Import, to import your file.

Exporting Your Library and Media
To export your questions and any images or media files attached to the questions:

Add your questions to a new library
Save your library (Library>Save)
Then Export (Library>Export)

When done, this will create a folder that will contain your CSV file and all media attached to your questions.

Need a template? Download the FREE CSV template here.

Why use a CSV file? This allows others, who may not have the game builder, to enter or modify questions easily. To export a question bank, click on Export in the Library drop down menu. To add images to the CSV file, make a new folder and give it a unique name. Then when entering your questions into the CSV file, you can add the media or image name in the CSV file, indicating when it should appear. Make sure you add any images and media to the folder.

Randomizing your Questions and Categories

You can easily pull questions from a library and populate a game randomly. Not only can you randomize your questions, but you can also randomize categories. As long as you have a library of questions and categories made, there is no need to enter any questions into the game builder, the game will pull content from the library.

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You also need to have enough questions in your library/categories to cover the number of question you have chosen on the game board. For example, if you choose Quiz Show and have chosen the game minimum (3 categories with 3 questions each), you need to have at least three questions in each category. If, for example, you have 2 categories with 6 questions each, then the game will randomize the first 2 categories (since they are first), then will not have any content for the third category, so the game will default to what was placed on the game board, or be empty, if there are no questions entered.

To randomize questions and categories, you do not have to enter any questions or name your categories in the game builder. The game will pull randomly from the library of questions.

Create your questions.
Create a Category by clicking on the Add (Folder icon) in the library. Give the Category a unique name (this will appear as the Category name in the game). NOTE: You can have more categories in your library then you do on the game board. However, if you have 4 categories selected for the game board, you will need at least 4 categories in the library.
When you get your categories (with questions) set up in the library, you will need to name them, so they can be assigned to the game. Go to Library tab (4), select Save As, and give each category a unique name.
Then go to Setting area of the main game board, and check Use randomized questions from library drop down box. Choose the library you want to use (look for the name in the drop down menu). If you do not see the library, make sure you saved it in the library.
Launch your game, and you will now see it randomly pull questions from the library.
Any time you make adjustments in your library, you will need to go into the library tab, and click on Save to update.

If you choose to randomize, you do not need to enter any questions on the game board. If you do have questions, you do not need to remove them. The game will simply assign questions that are in the library.

A note about Quiz Show and the Final Question
If you choose to randomize and you have the final question enabled, you need to be aware that the game will treat the final question as a category and will randomize the content as well. A suggestion to get around this, is to create one less category in the library (do not include the category for the final question in the library). For example, let's say you have a 3x3 board selected and a final question. In the library, create 3 categories and place as many questions in the library as you want (just make sure you have at least 3 for each category). When the game launches, it will randomize the first 3 categories (it always starts with the first category listed), but since there is not a 4th category, the game will keep the final question as is (make sure you add one to the game board or turn off the final question). If you add 4 categories in the library, in this example, then the game will randomize the final question. Why is this a problem? It becomes a problem only if you are using summaries in a question. The final question can not display a final summary.

A Note about Spin Off and the Category Colors and Icons
When randomizing questions in Spin Off, the name of the category will become whatever the name of the category is in the library. You can not assign a color or icon to a specific category in a library. There are 2 ways around this: k eep your icons non-specific or keep them general, so they will match up with whatever the category name is. If, for example, you want the categories in the library to be assigned to a specific category on the wheel, all you need to do is make sure that you name the category on the wheel and the category in library exactly the same.

A Note about Billionaire Game Library
Billionaire game uses a 4-answer multiple choice style question format and does not support open-ended questions. You can edit questions within the library so they will work in Billionaire. If you have a 5-answer multiple choice question, you will need to modify it to 4 possible answers. In random mode, the game will pull from a different category after each round. Make sure that each category has a enough questions to match what is selected on the game board. Category names will not show up in Billionaire, they are just placeholders for questions.

A Note about Showdown Game Library
The Showdown game is more of an open answer format with multiple correct answers. You can import multiple choice questions into the game, but they all will be correct. For the most part, you will use questions made in Showdown, only in Showdown, since this game plays differently than the other games.

Showdown questions in the library will have the following icon to mark the question as a Showdown question. (To save Show Down questions in the library, you will need to click and drag those questions from your Show Down game, into the library).

To use Showdown in random mode, all your questions, in the library you choose to use, must have the red .